Alphabet books fill the
children’s shelves at libraries and bookstores. They are easily found in book
bargain bins at local retail and grocery stores. Teachers and parents pull out
popular ABC picture books to use in teaching letter recognition to young
readers. Authors who write for children love ABC books, too. Every picture book
author I know has attempted to write an ABC story, or many, even though these
are hard to sell to editors since there is always glut of these titles in the
marketplace. Still, new ABC books appear every year, and if the illustrations
are fun like Miss
Spider’s ABC by David Kirk, or sweet like Margaret Wise Brown’s Sleepy
ABC, with pictures by Karen Katz, we’ll eagerly add more of these books
to our collection.
Write your ABCs
Challenge your students to
write their own ABC into a fun story poem.
Alliteration is a great way
to inspire ideas and it certainly can add to the ABC fun. Long or short
sentences are fine. It’s your choice.
Short sentence example: Apes ate ants.
Longer sentence example: Alice’s alligator ate apricots and asparagus
at an Albany assembly.
Use your favorite activities
(sports, hobbies) to help inspire ABC ideas, too.
Example:
Alex aced archery.
Beth bounced basketballs.
Carlos caught catfish.
Dean dove deep.
Once you’ve completed your
letter list, if you’re inspired, add drawings to create your own ABC picture
book.
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